WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated] — WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor …

Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal — Yesterday, the new media team at the White House announced via the Associated Press that whitehouse.gov is now running on Drupal, the open source content management system. That Drupal implementation is in turn running on a Red Hat Linux system …

What Comes After Hard Drives? — (PhysOrg.com) — The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. Since their invention in the 1950s …

Japan's Windows 7 Whopper Is Real, and It's Horrifying — CheapAssGamer took the voyage to a Burger King in Akihabara to try the Windows 7 Burger. Apparently, $14 buys you the most desiccating pile of adipose flesh ever to be partially congealed by man. [CheapAssGamer Thanks Ashcraft!]

Yahoo GeoCities closes on Oct. 26 — GeoCities, once the Internet's third most visited domain, will be shutting down on Oct. 26, taking with it thousands of user home pages. All that information will be history.... Fortunately, some historians are making sure it's not lost to the annals of time.

Microsoft Offers Windows 7 on USB Drives for Netbooks — Microsoft is allowing netbook users to download Windows 7, its new operating system, onto a bootable USB or burn it onto a DVD, in yet another move by Redmond to disseminate the operating system to as many users as possible.

Nokia is exploring 3D multi-touch interface — By now, almost everyone has figured what a good touch interface on a mobile device should look like. Also, almost everyone is dabbling with at least some sort of multi-touch features on mobile devices. — Nokia is no exception here.

Billionaire Aids Charity That Aided Him — Were it not for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, there might be no Google. — Thirty years ago today, Sergey Brin, a 6-year-old Soviet boy facing an uncertain future, arrived in the United States with the help of the society.